I continue to go with team members to the streets each Monday to work with the street ministry there. I have been working with Anne and some of the other volunteers to figure out a good system to provide care for the small children who are too young to be in the toddler class. We attempt to play games with them in order to keep them from disturbing the mothers during their lesson. However, we have about 20 small children, some unable to sit up on their own. I am hopeful that we are getting closer to a good solution. We want to enable the mothers to devote their full attention to learning from God’s word during those lessons.
I have also been spending time working one-on-one with Yvonne, one of the young mothers in the MITS boarding program. The other two are taking basic classes from a teacher there because they were both unable to even write their own names. They are improving, but I am devoting my time to working with Yvonne who has more prior education and is catching on quickly. She is a decent writer already, so I am working to address the problem areas (proper verb tense usage, proper capitalization, etc.). Yvonne also has classes with a teacher throughout the week, so my lessons are just to focus on improving her writing abilities.
